This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Terry Farrell: You said: "And luck was with me." And it was! And I'm sure you feel a HUGE sense of relief! You persisted, = you cogitated, you asked the list (I'm sure we all "prayed" for you!) = and finally you won the day! It was NOT your fault.... but who cares = whos' fault it was?=20 I am equally sure we all have had similar problems and you will get = inundated with the stories... Here's mine: It was a dark and gloomy day in the long shadows of the = evening sun here in the Dowdlands of Sussex-by-the-Sea. The head of = music and I were gazing disconsolately at the school's S&S "A" in the = school chapel. "every time we move it the buzz comes on a different = note" he said. So we looked and looked, we thumped the soundboard and = there it was. Buz.z.z.z "There's got to be something in there" he said. = I agreed. Providentially in my tuning kit I have one of those dentists = small round mirrors on a long metal handle. Equally providentially the = head of music (whose name, believe it or not, is Terry) had tucked away = in his cupboard one of those long flexible probe things where three = prongs come out of the business end when you press the plunger. These = tools together with my powerful flash-light were sufficient. The school = had lived with this problem for several years before I came on the = scene. Now we looked most carefully under the plate with my mirror and = there, caught lodged between the plate and soundboard was a foreign = object. Spherical, just the right size and awesome! Carefully now. I = inserted the long flexible tool with jaws extended. I managed to grab = the object and, by Terry pressing down on the soundboard while I = gingerly worked the foreign object toward me we extracted it. What was = it? A marble? NO - a dirty great heavy ball bearing. It now resides in = Terry's office, in a jar labelled "Extract of Steinway. Not to be taken = lightly" The sun shone brightly thereafter the clouds had lifted and the = Downs basked in the late evening glow. Now, some ten years later, I have = the job of overhauling that same S&S on the schools' limited budget.=20 This is what the list is all about. Help when needed! Regards to all Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/31/2b/7b/fa/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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